User talk:Temlakos/Archive4

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RE: Semantic anotation

Thanks for the comment! I have also created a chemical template which can now be used for elements (I will adapt it for use with compounds as well in the future) and does semantic annotation automatically. --Rucas 13:42, 16 January 2008 (EST)

Hellenism and Hell

Have you noticed there's a connection between modern conceptions of Heaven and Hell, and Greek mythology? For instance, Hell is a giant underground torture factory, where demons torment the damned with pitchforks. Now, if you're familiar with the Greek conception of Hades, you'll note that in their myths the Furies tortured the condemned. Now, we have demons doing it. Also, Hades ruled the underworld...and now, in "Christian" thought, Satan rules it. How is it that we've managed to take a very serious topic and contort it into nothing but a myth? Can't we see how dangerous that is? Scorpionman 22:45, 24 January 2008 (EST)

Well, you've got one concept down pat--that too many people have overlain the concept of hell with extra-Biblical and even extra-Christian ideas. Our best defense agains that sort of thinking is the truth.--TemlakosTalk 23:27, 24 January 2008 (EST)

Transitional fossils

Glad to see the site back up! Do we have anything on transitional fossils such as this large list I just encountered? I'm sorry it's so long but that's why it really got to me! I've never even heard of half of them before.

  • Fish to Amphibians
  • Tiktaalik roseae
  • Osteolepis
  • Eusthenopteron
  • Panderichthys
  • Elginerpeton
  • Obruchevichthys
  • Hynerpeton
  • Tulerpeton
  • Acanthostega
  • Ichthyostega
  • Pederpes finneyae
  • Eryops

Amphibians to Amniotes (early reptiles)

  • Proterogyrinus
  • Limnoscelis
  • Tseajaia
  • Solenodonsaurus
  • Hylonomus
  • Paleothyris
  • Synapsid (mammal-like "reptiles") to mammals
  • Protoclepsydrops
  • Clepsydrops
  • Dimetrodon
  • Procynosuchus
  • Thrinaxodon
  • Yanoconodon
  • Diapsid reptiles to birds
  • Yixianosaurus
  • Pedopenna
  • Archaeopteryx
  • Changchengornis
  • Confuciusornis
  • Ichthyornis
  • Evolution of whales
  • Pakicetus
  • Ambulocetus
  • Kutchicetus
  • Artiocetus
  • Aetiocetus
  • Dorudon
  • Basilosaurus
  • Eurhinodelphis
  • Mammalodon
  • Evolution of the horse
  • Hyracotherium
  • Mesohippus
  • Parahippus
  • Merychippus
  • Pliohippus
  • Equus
  • Non-human apes to modern humans
  • Pierolapithecus catalaunicus
  • Ardipithecus
  • Australopithecus
  • Homo rudolfensis
  • Homo habilis
  • Homo erectus

Scorpionman 20:11, 25 February 2008 (PST)

All right, sounds great! Scorpionman 06:45, 26 February 2008 (PST)

Thanks

Thanks for fixing the format that i made about the sun and nuclear fusion. --EdgarMSalazar 22:10, 6 March 2008 (PST)

Links

For future reference, in case that user or any other user leaves links of the type that you just took off the Astronomy article, what policy should I follow, in case I notice it first? I appreciate your taking care of things, but if I can take care of such matters earlier next time, I'd like to know how and under what guideline.--TemlakosTalk 08:43, 12 March 2008 (PDT)

Links that question the claims of the article are permitted. The links section should simply separated into "creationist" and "secular" sections. I removed the Astronomy link because it was to a site of especially low quality - a blog of somewhat random content, which was redundantly placed on another page.

Its really a case by case judgement. The authors intend weighs heavily in this case as all links placed were anticreation in nature. --Mr. Ashcraft - (talk) 08:57, 12 March 2008 (PDT)

SMW_DV_HxDate.php

Hi, my name's Robert Murphy and I use your "Historical Date" type for SemanticMediaWiki on my wiki ReformedWord. Everything runs fine, but when I recently ran SMW_refreshdata.php I saw a gazillion error messages regarding line 367 in the code (undefined variable). I got my copy of your code from the SemanticMediaWiki users' mailing list so maybe you've got a different line number... it looks like this:

if ($abbr == "OS" || $year <= 1582) {

Now I know very little PHP, but it looks to me like everywhere else you use the hash $this->year. Does this look like a change I/we ought to make to the code??!? --Aquatiki 18:11, 31 March 2008 (PDT)

Case Against Faith

Hey there, I've come across a site that I found at least interesting if not stupid ([1]) and was wondering if anyone here was interested in a rebuttal. He's got a large critique of Lee Strobel's Case for a Creator and since that deals mainly with evolution and design I thought it might be appropriate for a refutation on this site. What do you think? Scorpionman 07:23, 3 April 2008 (PDT)

Good point, but I still think it's a good idea, in case anybody else is interested. Perhaps I could start one and whoever finds it interesting can continue it. Scorpionman 16:07, 3 April 2008 (PDT)
I think this site probably deserves some attention, unless of course they're just repeating what Talk.Origins has already put out. Scorpionman 10:24, 12 April 2008 (PDT)
Well I suppose you're right, I think it does essentially repeat Talk.Origins, albeit to a lesser degree of credibility. Scorpionman 19:26, 14 April 2008 (PDT)
You ever see this article from the Discover magazine? Kinda disturbing Scorpionman 17:58, 15 April 2008 (PDT)
Of course the experiments are always kept under careful control too, if they create life it will only go to show how intelligence is behind it. Morris already dealt with it in Scientific Creationism. Scorpionman 20:55, 15 April 2008 (PDT)

Template:Icc header

Found it. It was missing a terminator </div>.

--Mr. Ashcraft - (talk) 12:10, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Titan

In researching Titan, moon of Saturn, for an update (with the latest findings from Cassini), I discovered a JPL/NASA/USGS video animation of Cassini's mapping run of Titan's north pole region. I uploaded it to YouTube and embedded it. But I had forgotten that with YouTube you get an instant selection of "related" videos. Shall I leave it as it is? Or shall I upload it to GoogleVideo instead?--TemlakosTalk 23:48, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

No - I think its fine - very cool actually. We should probably put together a help page for embedding videos. --Mr. Ashcraft - (talk) 16:36, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Useless theory

Check out this article from "Creationism versus Science:" Intelligent Design is Completely Useless. Does the analogy he provides work or not? I'm not a biology expert so I can't tell but it makes sense. Scorpionman 03:53, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

I noticed that too, and not just in his site. No biologist has ever managed it.

I doubt Mr. Wong is worthy of any response, so dodgy and silly are his arguments. You? Scorpionman 23:54, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. We can't swat flies all the time. We'd have no time to get any work done.--TemlakosTalk 00:39, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Mudskipper fish

The mudskipper is a fish that has fins that can actually crawl on land. What does this say about fish-to-frog evolution? Scorpionman 03:31, 7 July 2008 (UTC) [2] The fins can crawl just like an arm can, doesn't this show that fish could evolve into land-dwelling animals? Scorpionman 13:05, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Indeed, it hasn't been able to grasp things. There's no fingers or thumb! I bring it up because an evolutionist pointed it out to me in a debate, and I couldn't think of a response. Of course, the best one is that it is basically a fish, and has been a fish ever since it was created. Scorpionman 16:34, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
What about the fact that they've found bumps on a velociraptor skeleton that seem to show it had feathers? The same person is flouting this too as "evidence" of dino-bird evolution. Scorpionman 22:18, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
That's one possibility I can think of, indeed it was speculated by the very scientists who found the skeleton! I can conceive of it being a bird. But why would a bird like Archaeopteryx have teeth and claws if it was "just a bird?" Wouldn't the claws, teeth and tail be the "leftovers" of reptile-to-bird evolution? Scorpionman 01:53, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Russian wiki

The full text of the title and logo slogan would be ВикиТворения, энциклопедия науки о сотворении (VikiTvoryeniya, entsiklopyediya nauki o sotvoryenii, literally "Wiki of Creation, the encyclopedia of the science of creation.")

Sounds great. Go ahead and install the ru.

I would however question the need to reverse the text of the sitename to be grammatically correct. Lets keep "Creation" first in the sitenames on the other language sites - at least for now. The description should clear it up. Lets use the following...

ТворенияВики, энциклопедия науки о сотворении

I'll create the logos and setup the help files. Remember to configure the ru site to use wiki.png as the main logo. I'll protect it after upload.

--Ashcraft - (talk) 02:20, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Please read this: http://creationwiki.org/User_talk:Alexander_Korolev#Logo

Planet edit

I merely updated the Wiktionary link, nothing major, I hope that is ok, even though the timeframe of my edit was within a few hours. --Tony 01:31, 28 July 2008 (UTC) Actually nevermind, I must of clicked the wrong link and thought it was producing a 404 error, it is back to the way it was before I touched it. --Tony 01:36, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Archaeopteryx

I've never heard that argument before. An out-of-place artifact? How so? Was it not a genuine animal? Scorpionman 22:47, 31 July 2008 (UTC)


for information

Hello Telmakos. Please publish it anywhere, as it is possible for you.

I am a Christian, and in my opinion the war - it is terrible. I will never take the weapon in my hands, it is impossible for me as a believer.

But please note, that there is Information War in the world wide web. There are many bits of lie published by the News Agencies.

The new Internet site Russia-vs-Georgia.com have been created recently. The main goal of this site is to give all visitors do voting one of the side and comment it . The authors asserts that «Project doesn't support any of the sides. Our aim – together with visitors investigate real situation». The abbreviation vs is striked, obviously it is the hint to understanding that «Russia is not versus Georgia».

Read it, try to understand other side.

In my opinion it is important (not for current site of course). You can delete it, if you wish.

See you later, your brother in Jesus --Alexander Korolev 11:49, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

danilorodrig

It forgives. my objective one was only to contribute. Who knows, more for front, I cannot contribute? Debtor.

Templates

Thanks very much, Temlakos. Yes, I do plan on language tables into template code and will probably start on it later on today. I definitely agree that it would be a good idea to split the Greece article into Greece (country) and the Greek language. As for speaking any other languages, unfortunately, I'm not fluent in any of those yet, but plan to become fluent in at least one. -- CelticCreationist

Homosexuals

A debate opponent of mine pointed out that condoms can prevent the spread of HIV in gay partners. Does this pose a good reason why being gay should be tolerated? Scorpionman 20:28, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

He linked me to this study: [3] which "proves" homosexuals are normal due to some "maternal memory" phenomenon. It seems to make sense but I still don't think it's an excuse..what do you say to it? Scorpionman 03:46, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Noah's ark

The recent expansion looks very nice. Good job! ~ MD "Webster" Otley (talk) 20:15, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Rachel

Hi Temlakos, I did copy the text for the Rachel article but, that was an edit from last year (a few months after I joined) before I was fully aware of CreationWiki's policy about copying work from other sites. I'm aware of CreationWiki's policy now, so that isn't a problem anymore. - CelticCreationist 20:24, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Elam

I have to sources in some books so, I'll dig them out and send them to you later. -- CelticCreationist 20:32, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Saint Template

Thanks for doing that. - CelticCreationist 19:17, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Question

Hi Temlakos. I was wondering, would you happen to know of an apologist who could refute some Jewish anti-missionary claims against Jesus? Thanks in advance. - CelticCreationist 18:26, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks anyway. - CelticCreationist 19:47, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
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